Pāli Dictionary

devala

divrootlasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

div3照;耀


general

  • 提婆羅,一位苦行仙人之名(亦為辟支佛及上首弟子等多人所共用之名)

  • Devala, name of an ascetic (also borne by several other figures, incl. a Pacceka Buddha and a chief disciple)

Encyclopedia

5 entries

Devala
Person
  • 一位苦行者,因那羅陀仙人(菩薩)兩次不慎踩到他而對其施以咒詛,後被認定即是圖拉帝須比丘的前生。

  • An ascetic who cursed a fellow hermit, Nārada (the Bodhisatta), for accidentally treading on him twice, and was later identified with the monk Thulla-Tissa.

Devala2
Other
  • 參見迦羅提婆羅(Kāḷadevala)條目,此人事蹟載於該條之下。

  • See Kāḷadevala, under whose name this figure’s story is given.

Devala3
Person
  • 蓮花上佛的堂弟,後成為其上首弟子,與兄弟善生(Sujāta)一同是該佛初轉法輪的聽眾。

  • A cousin of the Buddha Padumuttara who became his chief disciple, the recipient with his brother Sujāta of that Buddha’s first sermon.

Devala4
Person
  • 喜馬拉雅山中的一位苦行者,在蓮花上佛出世之前便預先建塔供養以迎接其到來,後轉生梵天,為斯利馬長老的前生。

  • An ascetic in the Himavā who, before the Buddha Padumuttara’s birth, built a shrine and made offerings in anticipation of his coming, later reborn in the Brahma world as a previous existence of the elder Sirimatthera.

Devala5
Person
  • 一位辟支佛,曾被一位騎象出行的王子侮辱,此王子後來轉生為優波離,也正因這次侮辱而使優波離最後一生投生於低種姓家庭。

  • A Pacceka Buddha who was once insulted, while riding an elephant, by a prince later reborn as Upāli, an act that caused Upāli’s low-caste birth in his final life.

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